How do I change message wording

To change the You do not have permission to submit a question, you can open the templates/question-submit-form.php line 68
Or use the .po file to change it.
If you want to create a child theme for the plugin. Currently, you can create a template for DW Q&A based on WordPress child theme, so you may want to check out this link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Basically, here is the instruction to create a template for DWQ&A:
1) Follow the guide in the link above to create a WP child theme.
2) Go to your child theme folder, and create a new folder, named it dwqa-templates. Inside your new folder, create the style.css file.
3) Go to plugins/dw-question-answer/inc/templates/default folder, and copy all the .php files in that folder to the dwqa-templates folder that you created above.
4) Open up the functions.php file in your child theme folder, and add the code below to bottom of the file:

/* load style for DW Q&A plugin */

if( !function_exists(\'dwqa_tmpl_scripts\') ){

 function dwqa_tmpl_scripts(){

 wp_enqueue_style( \'dwqa-tmpl\', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . \'/dwqa-templates/style.css\' );

 }

 add_action( \'wp_enqueue_scripts\', \'dwqa_tmpl_scripts\' );
}

5) After 4 steps above, you can now edit both the .php file and the style.css file in dwqa-templates folder as you want without any effect on the Q&A plugin.
Hope this helps!

At the moment, we have disable temporary this option in the latest version. If you want to display the login/register link in the single question, you can open the single-question.php file in the templates folder and add the following code under line 20.

<?php

if ( dwqa_current_user_can( 'post_answer' ) ) {
dwqa_load_template( 'answer', 'submit-form' );

} else { ?>

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

<div class="alert"><?php _e( 'You do not have permission to submit answer.','dwqa' ) ?>

<?php } else { ?>

<h3 class="dwqa-title">

<?php

printf( '%1$s <a href="%2$s" title="%3$s">%3$s %4$s', **( 'Please login or', 'dwqa' ), wp_registration_url(), **( 'Register', 'dwqa' ), __( 'to Submit Answer', 'dwqa' ) );

?>

<div class="login-box">

<?php wp_login_form( array( 'redirect' => get_post_permalink( $question_id ) ) ); ?>

<?php

}

}

?>

Hope this helps!

@Dominic

I need to understand. Are you saying that it is not possible to create a child theme with DWQA?

Your instructions said:

1) Follow the guide in the link above to create a WP child theme. OK I AM ALREADY USING A CHILD THEME. IT HAS A STYLE.CSS FILE WITH A LINK TO THE PARENT THEME.

2) Go to your child theme folder, and create a new folder, named it dwqa-templates. Inside your new folder, create the style.css file. THERE IS ALREADY A STYLE.CSS FILE IN THE CHILD THEME ITSELF. DO YOU WANT ME TO CREATE A SECOND ONE IN THE DWQA-TEMPLATES FOLDER? SHOULD IT BE A COPY OF THE ONE IN THE CHILD THEME ITSELF?

3) Go to plugins/dw-question-answer/inc/templates/default folder, and copy all the .php files in that folder to the dwqa-templates folder that you created above. THERE IS NO ‘/TEMPLATES’ FOLDER IN THE ‘/INC’ FOLDER. THE /INC AND /TEMPLATES ARE SEPARATE FOLDERS AT THE SAME ROOT LEVEL. THERE IS NO ‘DEFAULT’ FOLDER IN EITHER THE /INC OR THE /TEMPLATES FOLDER.

4) Open up the functions.php file in your child theme folder, and add the code below to bottom of the file: THE FUNCTIONS.PHP FILE IS IN THE /INC/HELPER FOLDER.

i HAVE GONE BACK TO VERSION 1.3.8 AND THEY ARE ALL THE SAME DIRECTORY LAYOUT. SO WHAT IS THE STORY ON CREATING A CHILD THEME?

Maury

@Dominic

Thank you very much. You guys have provided great help.

I have been able to make changes to the message on the dwqa-ask-question page and I will mark this question resolved. I can also make changes in the style.css file to match the style of the dwqa pages to my site theme.

I will be looking at the DWQA-Focus theme. It actually may be better suited to my site than the one I am using.

@jacobstrom
Please let me know if you have any issue or question, I will check and help you resolve it.